09-20-2018
Of course you can do that. But, you'll need to be much clearer about what you mean by "length needs to be determined (sic) accorindly". I'm not at all clear about how you want to fit eight characters from engineer or six characters from doctor in a five character output field. (And you still haven't told us whether you want left-justified or right-justified text in fields that do not completely fill the output field.)
Note that in awk you can use length($1) to get the number of characters contained in field 1 on the current input line and in shell you can use ${#c} to get the number of characters contained the shell variable c. That should be everything you need to determine how many characters are in your widest input fields and to produce a format string that will give you appropriately sized output fields.
Why don't you try clearly specifying your output requirements, and try to write a corresponding awk or shell (or both) script to produce the output you want. If you can't make it work, show us where you get stuck.
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py_xls2csv
py_xls2csv(1) General Commands Manual py_xls2csv(1)
NAME
py_xls2csv - convert an Excel xls file to a comma separated value csv file
SYNOPSIS
py_xls2csv input-file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
py_xls2csv takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a comma separated value csv file. Output is sent to stdout.
Additional utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.
OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options.
AUTHOR
pyexcelerator and py_xls2csv were written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.
This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published
by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE-ALSO
pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)
October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)